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Biology/Medicine

Naked Mole Rats Get Their Day in the Sun, Because Cancer

Posted on June 19, 2013 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

Turns out one of the world’s ugliest creatures, the naked mole rat, does not get cancer, even if you really hard to make it happen. The coverage is fabulo...

Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/Uncategorized

Naomi Wolf’s “Vagina” and the Perils of Neuro Self-Help, or How Dupe-amine Drove Me Into a Dark Dungeon

Posted on September 10, 2012 by David Dobbs / 3 Comments

Someone should have warned Naomi Wolf what slippery material she’d get encounter by taking a neuro angle into Vagina: A New Biography. As Zoe Heller expla...

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Don’t Think About It! ‘Tight Collar’ Makes Best American Sports Writing

Posted on October 4, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Today’s a good day:  The Tight Collar, my story about choking under pressure, is officially published in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Best American S...

Culture of Science/Uncategorized

Arsenic is Life and the View From Nowhere

Posted on September 29, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

[Note: Major second thoughts at bottom; post retitled (formerly “Cutting to the Chase on the Arsenic Circus”)] Popular Science has run what strikes ...

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Why Behold Beauty? Because It’s Sociable.

Posted on July 21, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

This I could not resist: Ed Yong and Jonah Lehrer have written intriguing fine pieces about a new study of beauty — or rather, beauty’s appreciation. The ...

Culture of Science/Uncategorized

Science Publishes “Arsenic is Life” Critiques. Game On.

Posted on May 27, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Alert readers will remember the scuffle that broke out last summer December over the “arsenic-is-life” paper by Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues th...

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Those Who Waited Get Impatient Too: or how new journo tools can get you out of old school

Posted on May 25, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

A couple weeks ago, Ed Yong published a talk by RadioLab’s Robert Krulwich that went viral in journalism and  science-writing circles, for good reason. Sp...

Brains and Behavior/Uncategorized

The Pope’s Balls, Nagel’s Bats, Barthes, Baldwin, and other pleasures

Posted on March 17, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

 I’ve been head-down on a complicated piece of writing this week; an enormous pleasure, but it steals you away. Forgive the quiet. Below is what broke th...

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Guardian podcast captures the richness of ScienceOnline & science blogging

Posted on January 24, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

I just finished listening to Alok Jha’s podcast at Guardian about ScienceOnline. What a pleasure! Jha gracefully captures what drives science (and all) bl...

Brains and Behavior/Uncategorized

The love-hate hormone, ingroup/outgroup wars, and the power of culture

Posted on January 11, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Ed Yong, who among other things is an oxytocin-news watchdog of late, highlights yet another study showing that oxytocin, sometimes typecast as the “love ...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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